Waad Ramadan Alwan

Waad Ramadan Alwan (1981-) was an Iraqi al-Qaeda member who was arrested in the United States in 2011 for trying to buy weapons for al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Biography
Wadi Ramadan Alwan was born in Ba'athist Iraq in 1981 to a Sunni Muslim family, and he worked as a power plant worker. Alwan became a sniper and bomb maker for the Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War in 2003, and he was involved in hiding IEDs to attack American convoys. In 2009, Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi entered the United States while posing as refugees, and they attempted to buy sniper rifles and Stinger missiles for al-Qaeda in Iraq. In 2011, the two men were arrested in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Alwan was identified as the perpetrator of a 2005 IED attack in Baiji, Iraq.